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Todd Palin thumbs his nose at the law

Todd Palin says he will refuse to obey a subpoena from an independent investigator for the state legislature in Alaska. The reason: Palin claims he's too busy out on the campaign trail. What a limp excuse.

Investigators want to know how much involvement Todd Palin had in pressuring for the firing of either the commissioner or, before that, the trooper.

If Todd Palin continues to thumb his nose at the law, he can be found in contempt of the proceedings.

But he may win the battle obviously being waged now by the Palins and McCain's handlers.
They hope to keep the independent investigation from reaching a conclusion before Nov. 4.

Problem is, the longer this matter stays in the public view -- and the Palins not cooperating with it -- the worse it looks for McCain's image as a law-abiding do-gooder.
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http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2097

There are some well researched comments on the blog that follows this item.
 
BSD said:
Self sufficient!

Your now failed system is being bailed-out with a TRILLION dollar government intervention.

The idiocy from all involved is going to cost your country for decades.

Sarah Palin, George W Bush, creationism, NINJA loans, War on Terror...

How sad a great country has been reduced to this.
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I guess that is where Sarah Palin comes in. At least the media can focus on her pregnancy, hoop earrings, spectacles, vindictive sacking, hacked emails, etc.

It makes people forget that all of a sudden they are slapped with a 1 trillion dollar debt which makes a mockery of their hard work and lifelong savings.
 
I reckon it is quite reasonable for The First Dude to say he is unavailable for questioning because he is too busy on the campaign trail.

What is wrong with that.

Get real, women and men of the left.

gg
 
Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter



The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.

Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town’s ills, and order her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.

At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial bid.

In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: “As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he’s so bold. And he was praying “Lord make a way, Lord make a way.”

“And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that’s exactly what happened.”
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http://timesonline.typepad.com/uselections/2008/09/palin-linked-el.html
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
I reckon it is quite reasonable for The First Dude to say he is unavailable for questioning because he is too busy on the campaign trail.
What is wrong with that.
Get real, women and men of the left.
gg
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I would have thought you might support people obeying the law, as a subpoena has the force of law behind it.
Instead, you think it's "reasonable" to disobey a lawful order, as politics comes first!
I trust others in their "right" mind think a little more sensibly.
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
I reckon it is quite reasonable for The First Dude to say he is unavailable for questioning because he is too busy on the campaign trail.

What is wrong with that.

Get real, women and men of the left.

gg
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Its getting hard to get left of any thing when your heroes GG are nationalizing the banks :D
 
Alaskans angered that Palin is off-limits

The McCain machine is taking all queries/calls requesting information about Palin's record as governor.
The Republicans initiated the Troopergate enquiry but now stifle it. Why? :confused:
Does this sound like a McPalin government might be transparent? :confused:

It seems if Obama wins on Nov 4, then Palin won't have a job to return to!

In Wasilla, a dozen or more campaign researchers and lawyers have begun overseeing the release of any information about Palin's years as mayor. McCain staffers have even been assigned to answer calls for Palin's family members, who have been instructed not to talk.

"Why did the McCain campaign take over the governor's office?" the Anchorage Daily News demanded in an editorial Saturday. "Is it too much to ask that Alaska's governor speak for herself, directly to Alaskans, about her actions as Alaska's governor?"

Democratic leaders say the bipartisanship that helped Palin win passage of ethics measures, a new natural-gas pipeline and an increase in the oil production tax -- in most cases over the objections of her own Republican leadership -- is essentially over.

"She would have gotten none of her bills passed without us, and to see her come in and attack us now the way she's attacking us, when it's completely unwarranted, is just tearing people up," said Democratic state Sen. Bill Wielechowski. "I think it's going to make it hard for her to come back and govern in this state."

Palin had welcomed the Legislature's inquiry and promised to cooperate.

But she now says the state personnel board, not the Legislature, is the proper venue to probe what happened. The board consists of three GOP appointees.

Palin's spokespeople have accused the Democratic chair of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, Hollis French, and others of turning the probe into a partisan attack. In a media interview earlier this month, French warned that the committee's final report might turn into "an October surprise" for the McCain campaign.

On Friday, French, who was Palin's point man in the Legislature on the oil production tax hike, waited for more than half an hour for subpoenaed witnesses, including Palin's husband. None showed up.

Several other witnesses had been scheduled to testify voluntarily but, on the advice of Palin's attorney general, also did not appear.

The resulting standoff has put Alaska on the verge of a constitutional crisis, as the legislative and executive branches each refuse to budge, and no one is sure who is in charge.

Legislators say they will consider holding in contempt any witnesses who ignore subpoenas, and they have challenged the right of the attorney general, who is appointed by the governor, to advise state employees on whether to testify.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-troopergate21-2008sep21,0,2158301.story
 
Palin's spokespeople have accused the Democratic chair of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, Hollis French, and others of turning the probe into a partisan attack. In a media interview earlier this month, French warned that the committee's final report might turn into "an October surprise" for the McCain campaign.
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The above paragraph says it all. The democrats, seeking their 15 minutes of fame that came about because of the VP pick, have turned this into a political witch hunt. French is on Obama's Alaska campaign commitee, and should step aside.

Besides that, Moneghan himself - the guy that was fired - said that he was never told to fire the trooper. The emails that Gov. Palin released proved that Moneghan was fired for other reasons. No one disputes that Palin has the right to fire a political appointee.

There is nothing there. Political appointees are subject to firing at the will of the Governor - for reason or NO REASON.

Palin has made enemies of the good old boys network in Alaska - Republican AND Democrat - and they are trying to exact their revenge.

But it will come to nothing. Palin will become Vice President. And all these officials in Alaska that are causing problems will be voted out in the next elections. The people of Alaska - by 80% are behind Palin. They won't forget this.
 
FBI serves search warrant against UT student in Palin case

The FBI is stepping up its investigation into the hacking of personal e-mail of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin by a University of Tennessee student.

A person who identified himself as a witness tells WBIR-Knoxville that agents with the FBI served a federal search warrant at the Fort Sanders residence of David Kernell early Sunday morning.

David Kernell is the son of Mike Kernell, a Democratic state representative from Memphis.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS0206/80921009

If this had happened to Obama, the news media would be in a feeding frenzy - it would be front page news in every newspaper in America. But, since a Democrat hacked Palin's email account, the media could care less. See if you can find this story on any front page in America, or on ANY newscast.
 
SarahMania continues!!!


Palin draws crowd of 60,000 in The Villages

http://news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS0107/80921022

THE VILLAGES -- Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting supporters that John McCain is "the only great man in this race" and promised Sunday he will fix the nation's economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House.

"He won't say this, so I'll say it for him," the Alaska governor said in an almost confidential tone at the close of her first Florida stump speech. "There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years -- talk about tough."

The Villages, a vast, upscale planned community north of Orlando, has about 70,000 mostly adult residents -- many of them military retirees -- who vote reliably Republican in statewide races. Tens of thousands inched along roads into the picturesque town square of the complex, where they stood in sweltering heat for about four hours as local GOP officials and a country band revved up the crowd.

"Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!" they chanted at every mention of her name, applauding loudly and waiving tiny American flags that were distributed -- along with free water bottles -- by local volunteers. The fire chief estimated the crowd at 60,000.

Admiring throngs mobbed the Palin family's arrival and departure, snapping souvenir pictures. Autograph seekers thrust campaign signs, caps with the McCain-Palin logo and copies of magazines with her face on their covers, and the Palins responded warmly.
 
Exclusive: New Doubts Over Palin's Troopergate Claims
Internal Government Document Contradicts Sarah Palin, Campaign

Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a "rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's directives.

"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.

The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.

But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.

The document, a state travel authorization form, shows that Palin's chief of staff, Mike Nizich, approved Monegan's trip to Washington, D.C., "to attend meeting with Senator Murkowski."

Last week a legislative panel approved a subpoena for Nizich to be interviewed by Stephen Branchflower, the prosecutor hired to conduct the Alaska Legislature's inquiry into Troopergate.

The Attorney General informed the Legislature earlier this week that Nizich and other state employees subpoenaed in the matter would not submit to interviews.

On Friday, Monegan confirmed the travel authorization was to pursue funding for the anti-sexual-violence program. He said the travel authorization form was completed in a fashion consistent with practice.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5844710&page=1
 
ZzzzDad said:
The Barracuda:





Sarahmania!!!

(My daughter loves this video!!)
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I have a guy in my office who grew up in communist China whom he hates.
When he saw this video he was aghast and said "but that's propaganda like in China, they are using brain washing techniques".

I said that's America for you.
 
Knobby22 said:
I have a guy in my office who grew up in communist China whom he hates.
When he saw this video he said "but that's propaganda like in China, they are using brain washing techniques".

I said that's America for you.
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A couple of teenaged girls made that video up.

Geesh!!

You've got to be kidding, right? It is called free speech, something not allowed in China, but available in America everyday. The government didn't put this out, a couple of teeenagers did.

If that is like communist propaganda, what accounts for the Obama craze?
 
Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.

Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.

””Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion
 
Knobby22 said:
Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.

Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.

—Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion
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Sounds like the description of every speech Obama has given, and the MSM slavish devotion to the Messiah (Obama) to me. Now THAT'S propaganda.

The little video is a couple of teenaged girls making a video, putting it on youtube, and having fun with it. Why do you hate free speech my a couple of teenaged girls? They have no power - but are simply trying to promote "girl power".

The Greek temple speech of Obama - PROPAGANDA
The little youtube video put out by a couple of girls - NOT
 
ZzzzDad said:
Sounds like the description of every speech Obama has given, and the MSM slavish devotion to the Messiah (Obama) to me. Now THAT'S propaganda.

The little video is a couple of teenaged girls making a video, putting it on youtube, and having fun with it. Why do you hate free speech my a couple of teenaged girls? They have no power - but are simply trying to promote "girl power".
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The video is very cleverly done and I think it would have taken a team of people to do it. Not innocent teenage girls.

Watch it again carefully, look how the pictures are ordered, look at how they try to get emotional response, look how it starts innocently then slowly changes.
 
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